Although Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s name sometimes comes up in connection with a 2016 presidential run, many believe it’s unlikely she’ll take a shot at the top job.
Brewer garnered national media attention when she twice bucked the traditional GOP stance — vetoing a “religious rights” bill that would have allowed businesses to refuse to serve LGBTs for religious reasons and expanding Medicaid in her state.
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Those issues brought about numerous noteworthy tweets. Here are three on the religious rights issue:
But Brewer also opposed marriage rights for the LGBT community later in 2014, and she said it was “deeply troubling” when a judge struck down Arizona’s ban on gay marriage,
KTAR reported.
Here are three tweets that issued generated:
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Brewer fought the federal government’s immigration policies, joining a lawsuit against those policies, and that issue generated numerous tweets. She fought hard to be able to deny Arizona driver’s licenses to immigrants, called DREAMers:
This photo, supposedly of Brewer reading Obama the riot act about immigration, was tweeted and retweeted:
When Brewer went against many in her party to push for Medicaid expansion, Twitter lit up:
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